Moro kris with unusual design on the blade
 

I recently picked this up in a junk shop and it came i the dayak scabbard, the blade was covered in a dry grease ,I've cleaned it up a little , I just wondered if the design has any meaning or just decoration , it's quite a large heavy blade

The symbols would have very deep and personal talismanic meaning to the original owner. For better or for worse though, i am afraid no one today would be able to decipher their exact meaning. Nice junk shop find!

Nice find!

The square engraving is known as the "Seal of Solomon," a symbol for King Solomon's ring. Folk Islam attributed Solomon's control over Jinn to his possession of the ring which came straight from Allah.

The other engravings- the circles- may refer to either stages in spiritual ascent, or energy sources.

Hope this helps, nice kris!

Thats great , thanks for taking your time to add this information , very interesting ,
Thanks

That could indeed be a magickal seal of some sort, but it is not the Seal of Solomon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_of_Solomon

"Ring of Solomon" might be a more accurate name for it, but I've definitely heard it called (perhaps erroneously) "Seal of Solomon" more than once.
It does show up fairly frequently on Moro blades. I have at least one.
It'd be interesting to know what people in Bangsamoro call it.

https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-africa...east-asia.html

Thanks,
Leif

The same symbol on my "gun-ong."
Many of this variant a Ring of Solomon.

Thanks,
Leif